I lost my silk Rapha neckerchief on my Sunday ride and this was a real shame because it was a present from Rapha given over ten years ago. Following the idea that ´fortune favours the brave´ I set out on Monday evening to ride the same route more in hope of finding it than any… Continue Reading

In the last weeks we have had some very warm days and on one such ride I even got a suntan. We have also been through the ´Ice Saints´ period during May when the temperature annually plummets, and I was getting the impression that the Eisheilige wouldn´t go away! Today I took out my road/gravel… Continue Reading

A gentle spin over sections of the Gutingi Strade Bianche with hills removed to protect Andrea´s knee which is sore. I insisted she walk the Tillyberg (24%) at the end. The Ride Garmin Connect: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4946632411 Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/3466892987 Cycle Fahrrad Goettingen home page

Sadly, many events have fallen afoul of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cancelled were my two favourite road races Paris Roubaix and the Strade Bianche. I had also been looking forward to pedalling the Pavédemark on April 12 a tribute to Paris Roubaix. The Pavédemark hosted by Brelinger Berg Night and Day features a course with pave… Continue Reading

I had cleaned my bike to perfection and after one ride I was back to square one! This is the longer 66km (11 km more) version of the Gutingi Strade Bianche ride ridden in homage to one of the best road races on the calendar and it follows the presently off-colour white roads of Göttingen.… Continue Reading

A day away from the mud and rain, this ride was 50km of riding the ´black stuff´ at a laidback pace. There were quiet rolling roads and interesting villages with a hint of sunshine making it all rather special in an ordinary sort of way. We went past the Friedland Denkmal riding into a strong… Continue Reading

I long ago realised, as the wonderful Slits punk band said, that I am a “Weekend Warrior, Bread and Butter Hunter” thus I tend to find my modest pleasures close to home etc… So, having been off the bike for over a week we turned once more a trip to buy cat food into a… Continue Reading

It was great to meet up with Gunnar, Helmfried and Josh at the velodrome to ride the Strade Bianche de Guthingi. Sadly, Gunnar had to leave us early on as we three continued onward. Both Josh and Helmfried are a mine of local information and I think Helmfried is right to rename the ride the… Continue Reading

Apart from travelling during the evening when I lived in London, I cannot recall the last time I rode a bike in the dark. In London it wasn´t real darkness because of the street lighting etc. so I can say today I was riding in Bible Black for the first time in many years. I… Continue Reading

The mud out on the trails was pronounced and I haven´t been as dirty or as cold as this for a long time – sorry bike for putting you through the mire. But it was very Roubaix/Strade Bianche out there and of course deep down I loved it. I repeated the ride I had undertaken… Continue Reading

My last ride of the year was dictated by only a short period of time being available to me and this was true of my Christmas. I went looking for more gravel sections for Gö Strade Bianche and I spent a lot of time going back the way I came after a trail would just… Continue Reading

My final ride of the Autumn 2019 as we move into Winter. It is warm in Göttingen, but rain is forecast and at the end of December we could see the temperature plummet to minus 5/6! What is good for the morale and the reason why people have celebrated this time for centuries is because… Continue Reading

On this reconnaissance I missed out much of the gravel known to me so that I could check out new sections for Gö Strade Bianche and this meant a few dead ends and U-turns. Although I love the challenge of riding in mud, I don´t love it enough to force me to walk! Gö Strade… Continue Reading

The plan was to have been to meet Bernd Kaminski in nearby Moringen but German railways once more didn´t play nice and his train was so badly delayed he had to go home. With the sun shining and all set to ride we decided to do a wee bit more reconnaissance for Gö Strade Bianche… Continue Reading

After a week off the bike because of a cold it was great to be back on the road, well, on and off road. This first ride of December was a reconnaissance for a cunning plan we are hatching and thus there were lots of stops to take pictures and time lost as new roads… Continue Reading

Although no rain has fallen for a few days everything is wet and mist hangs low over city and country (making the denkmal at Friedland very moody looking). This ride began with a 23-kilometre pedal with Gunnar Fehlau taking in tarmac only, although dirty. After Gunnar had to return to work, I continued opting to… Continue Reading

I channelled my inner Annemiek Van Vleuten and Julian Alaphilippe (winners of the 2019 Strade Bianche) on this ride with its mix of gravel, farm, forest and tarmac roads. I decided to hunt (not with a gun and it’s the hunting season here in Germany) for new trails, and this led to me undertaking more… Continue Reading

To paraphrase the English comic actor who is probably better known in Germany than his home country my ride today was almost ´same procedure as last time´. (Dinner for One) With the weather being unsettled my ride was a little bit dictated by whether it would rain, and I mean RAIN, rather than just being… Continue Reading

We chose to make buying cat food a little more fun by including a trip along the Leine Valley to look at Bovenden. When we hit the first section of gravel mist was hanging across the landscape and by the time, we had made our way along more gravel, tarmac and concrete farm roads the… Continue Reading

An ´Arctic Break Out´ is bringing cold air to Northern and Central Europe, but with the sun shining it didn´t feel so glacial until I was descending, where a strong wind chill did cut into me. I do wonder when the winter really sets in how I will fair. This time I rode the Kopfsteinpflaster… Continue Reading

It occurred to me as I stepped out for a ride and had progressed about 10 kilometres that I was taking this wonderful ability to ride so many cool trails and roads for granted. Before March 2019 when I moved here from London, going for a ride was hard work, not the ride itself but… Continue Reading

I was still feeling a little battered despite a good night´s sleep from the previous day’s efforts at the Wieter-Plesse-Biking-CTF and I was advised to go for a recovery ride. I took out my Gö White Roads bike which is great for a combination of less gruesome gravel and nicely benign tarmac because I wanted… Continue Reading

It was for rides like this that I built my Gö white roads bike for. I set out from Geismar along a smooth cycle path before I hit the gravel at the watch tower overlooking the city approaches of Goettingen. There after it was a mix of quiet roads, concrete forest and farm tracks and… Continue Reading

GöWeißeStraßen RideIt had been raining for a few days and more was forecast, I elected to ride to satisfy my inner Roubaix or Strada Bianche (GöWeißeStraßen). It didn’t happen – no rain and I might have preferred that to the strong wind that developed as I rode. I did get into the Roubaix/Strada Bianche zone… Continue Reading

To say I had cabin fever would be to overstate it, rather after a few days of heavy rain having pinned me to home I knew I needed to pedal. I can accept a good drenching if I am out, but I do not venture forth into it at the start of a ride. Today… Continue Reading